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People were providing the president with good advice. some, i didnt understand how they had gotten. >> cipollone also described his frustration dealing with people who couldnt produce any evidence of widespread voter fraud. >> i disregard, a general disregard, for the importance of facts. facts. >> after, trump shifting gears and not backing down from his pursuit of election lies. tweeting the next day, an invitation to descend on washington on january 6th. >> be there. we will be wild the presi...

Lawyer to the call. their lawyer alerted us and this committee supply that information to the department of justice. >> we also found out late today that next january six committee hearing will be taking place next thursday, july 21st and prime time and you know we will be airing it right here. with that, lets get smarter, with the help of our lead off panel tonight. luke broadwater, pulitzer prize -winning congressional reporter from the new york times. he was in the room for todays hearing. fr...

Descend on washington on january 6. >> be there. will be wild, the president wrote. >> reporter: the committee also presented a draft tweet obtained from the national archives, showing trump land before january 6, to tell his supporters, please arrive early , massive crowds expected, march to the capitol after. this, despite members of trumps cabinet and inner circle testifying that they told trump he lost the election and he should concede to biden after the electoral college met in mid-decembe...

Into efforts to overturn the election itself. so there is information that could be incriminating within those documents, theres also information about witness is that the justice department might be cleaning planning to use in some of those cases. and if any witnesses have told the committee one thing the justice department another, that something they would want to know as well. >> many things that the committee made public yesterday was that a draft tweet from the been president where he said...

A security failure that day, and its because donald trump wound up the mob, spun them to the capitol and told them to fight. one of the most amazing revelations yesterday that took place was the text messages that revealed that rally organizers knew that donald trump was going to unexpectedly call on the crowd to march to the capitol, and they knew they had to keep it secret and under wraps because it would cause trouble. there was a draft tweet where donald trump was going to instruct them publ...

He knew, and people around him in other pieces of evidence that the committee put out, he knew them to stop the steel effort knew that marching was impossible. why is that important? >> because they have long maintained that this was meant to be a peaceful march. but this draft tweet really flies in the face of that and it suggests that he very much wanted to lead a violent mob to the capitol. i think that is the greatest burden of this committee, to make the case for criminality really clear. y...

Importance of actually backing up what you say with facts. >> reporter: afterward trump shifting gears but not backing down from his pursuit of pushing election lies. tweeting the next day an invitation to his supporters to descend on washington on january 6. >> "be there. will be wild," the president wrote. >> reporter: the committee also presenting a draft tweet obtained from the national archives showing trump planned before january 6 to tell his supporters please arrive early, massive crowds...

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Tweet on january 6th, during the insurrection itself, suggesting that the former president blame antifa and the media for what is going on. what do you see here? >> just the instinct, first instinct is to lie. they had the big lie and then they caused the drama on capitol hill, the damage on capitol hill, and then the first instinct is, again, just to lie. they had no evidence that bad apples likely antifa or crazed leftists were causing disruption on capitol hill. in fact, everybody who was tex...